To review the issues of the Safai Karmacharies
in the hills, the member of National Commission for Safai Karmacharies,
Ministry of Social Justice and Employment, Government of India, Mr.
Vijay Kumar visited Kalimpong this evening and held a joint meeting
with the authorities of the different government departments as well as
the representatives and members of the safai karmacharies at a hall at
Kalimpong SDO office .

He today strongly ordered the concerned
government officials to follow and implement the commission’s rule &
regulation properly on different issues for the interest and support
of safai karmacharies. he also took a review of the different problems
and issues of the safai karmacharies as well as to find out what
measures have been taken by the officials regarding their previous
orders, today they have hence visited here and held a meeting.

he
inquired about recruitment of the safai karmacharis have been made as
well as several posts which are lying vacant due to the death or
retirement of safai karmacharis.

To meet with the order of the
commission, the health and finance departments are going to stage their
respective camps on 16 February in Kalimpong to provide different
facilities to the safai karmacharis.

He said safai karmacharis
should also remain clean, healthy and developed. Accordingly the
government has ordered that whatever facilities like masks, gloves,
salaries, houses under government schemes like Ambedkar Avash Yojna and
Indira Avash Yojna and Pradhan Mantri Awash Yojna etc facilities
should be provided to them. He ordered the officials to provide masks,
gloves, uniform in 15 days .

He also added that those casual
workers who have been working for many years have still to become
permanent workers and they should be made permanent immediately and to
implement the minimum wages act too.